Vegan/Gluten Free Banana Flax Cookies

Looking for a healthy cruncher during your lay-in-bed all day movie marathon? Well if you can spare 10 minutes in between flicks, then you'll love these! It can be hard to veer away from the buttery popcorn, or fattening chocolate truffles--especially the night before Valentines day (for all you single folks out there, I hear you!) So we made a cookie that will make one thing love us for sure--our bodies! Instead of indulging yourself in fattening treats that will have your body in regret Valentines Day morning, give your body & health a little love with these easy Banana Oat Flax cookies. We love food, let it love you back.

Ingredients: makes 6-8 mini cookies

1 banana, mashed (the riper, the better!)
2 TB. Apple Sauce
1/2 C. Rolled Oats
2 tsp. Flax Seed, ground
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cocoa powder
handful of fresh blueberries
2 small squares of 85% Dark Chocolate, chopped

Directions

• preheat oven to 350 degrees
• in a medium sized bowl, mash the banana and combine with the apple sauce
• add the rolled oats, flax seed, cinnamon, cocoa powder.
• mix well and add the vanilla extract
• toss in the blueberries and chocolate pieces
• using a non-stick baking sheet, lay out the dough about a TBSP. size each
• bake for about 8-10 minutes.
• Let cool for 2 minutes, & enjoy aside a tall glass of unsweetened almond milk!